The Sui ecosystem has recently been booming, but if you only follow those common transaction protocols, you might miss out on truly game-changing innovations.

Speaking of Walrus—this protocol, jokingly called "Elephant" in the community—actually comes from Mysten Labs and is their flagship creation. Imagine looking back in 2026 at the old storage solutions that took tens of minutes to load a high-definition video; by then, Walrus will have already used its innovative Red Stuff 2D erasure coding technology to split data into fragments distributed across the entire network, achieving millisecond response speeds comparable to centralized cloud services.

This solution completely breaks away from the old "multiple backups" approach. Traditional protocols, for disaster recovery, tend to store the same file ten or more times, resulting in extremely high costs. Walrus takes a different route—using clever mathematical algorithms to divide data into fragments called Slivers. Even if half of the network nodes suddenly go offline, the remaining fragments can instantly restore the entire file through erasure coding. This innovation can reduce storage costs to less than one-fifth of competing products.

From a user perspective, ease of use is key. Many decentralized storage solutions require installing special plugins or modifying browsers, which ordinary users find inconvenient. Walrus directly supports standard HTTP protocol access, meaning you can use it directly with Chrome or Safari, just like browsing a regular webpage. This is what truly accessible infrastructure for the masses should look like.